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Abner Coimbre 2025-08-12 12:00:55 -07:00
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#### Could things have been different?
Maybe. Without social media or perverse incentives for online drama things could've gone differently. A meetup member in Seattle called me a “young grasshopper” as a community organizer. That caught me off guard until I looked around. Important events take time indeed: TED Talks have existed for four decades and then YouTube made it huge; DEFCON is thirty years old; many open-source conferences spent twenty years figuring things out. Wrangling humans is slow and messy.
Maybe. Without social media or perverse incentives for online drama things could've gone differently. A meetup member in Seattle called me a “young grasshopper” as a community organizer. That caught me off guard until I looked around. Important events take time indeed: TED Talks have existed for four decades; DEFCON is thirty years old; many open-source conferences spent twenty years figuring things out. Wrangling humans is slow and messy.
I’m done running conferences though. Besides the reasons above, they feed the egos of a few “anointed” speakers and require a social-media hustle I won’t play. I’m opting out. I’d rather build stuff that gets people offline: better meetups, our own server racks, and self-hosted tools for programmers making a living with serious Handmade projects.